The Hon. (Dr.) Susil Ranasinghe - Deputy Minister of Land and Irrigation
The Deputy Minister clarified that permits, deeds, and tax documents remain in effect, and that the issue concerns deeds under the “Urumaya” programme, which converted permits to freehold ownership. He stated that deeds already signed by the President will be issued, while pending cases may either be withdrawn or processed under a new programme beginning in May.
Verbatim record (translated)
Machine-translated from Sinhala / Tamil / English¶ 01 Hon. Member, there are different instruments such as permits, deeds and tax documents. The others have not been stopped. Under prior conditions, a special programme called “Urumaya” was implemented to convert permits to freehold. I am speaking about deeds issued under “Urumaya.” Some have already received deeds signed by the President; those will be issued. For those in between, there are two options: retrieve the documents and discontinue, or obtain the deed under the new programme commencing in May.
Provenance
- Source
- Hansard, Tuesday, 8 April 2025 ·No. 1747715041076408 ·English daily/uncorrected Hansard
- Page · column
- not yet extracted — page/column anchors are not in the current dataset; the source PDF is the citable location.
- Permalink
/lk/speeches/15100
Cite as: The Hon. (Dr.) Susil Ranasinghe - Deputy Minister of Land and Irrigation. 10th Parliament, Parliament of Sri Lanka. Hansard, 8 April 2025. No. 1747715041076408. Politick, https://staging.politick.io/lk/speeches/15100